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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2004, 2:23 PM CDT for Dallas County, Rockwall County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2004, 2:23 PM CDT (19:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2004, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dallas County, TX, Rockwall County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 269 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1539 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 19, 11:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 11:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1155 AM CDT SAT JUN 19 2004 .AVIATION UPDATE... OLD BOUNDARIES...OUTFLOWS JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE METROPLEX AIRPORTS WITH TCU BUILDING JUST TO THE SOUTH ATTM. NO ORGANIZED PRECIP TO OCCUR TODAY BUT WILL NEED TO INTRODUCE BLANKET TEMPO GROUP TO COVER RANDOMNESS OF AFTERNOON TSTRM ACTIVITY. TSTRM TO THE NW OF DFW...IF CONTINUES CURRENT COURSE...WILL ARRIVE NEAR DFW 18Z. AT PRESENT...MAIN CELL LOOKS TO PASS BY TO THE NORTH OF DFW ITSELF BUT SATELLITE IMAGE SHOWS DEVELOPING CU TO THE SW OF STORM THAT COULD DEVELOP INTO TSTRMS AND EFFECT AIRPORTS. 82 && .MORNING UPDATE... 1018 AM CDT SAT JUN 19 2004 FRONT STILL SITS UP IN OKLAHOMA. NUMEROUS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES HAVE MOVED INTO NORTH TEXAS MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO PREDICT EXACT AREAS FOR NEW CONVECTION. THUNDERSTORMS ALONG NORTHERN TIER OF COUNTIES CONTINUE MOVING EAST. CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESS NORTH OF I20 WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES DOWN A BIT BUT UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL STILL SUPPORT CONVECTION. GIVEN ALL THE UNCERTAINTY I HAVE LIKELY POPS ALONG RED RIVER AND CHANCE EVERYWHERE ELSE. UPDATED PACKAGE OUT SOON. .PREV AVIATION DISCUSSION... SHRA/-TSRA BEGINNING TO DEVELOP JUST N OF METRO AIRPORTS SO WILL START OFF WITH A TEMPO WITH -TSRA FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS. PRECIP CHANCES WILL LINGER INTO THE AFTERNOON...SO WILL NEED TO KEEP SOME MENTION OF TSRA FOR MUCH OF THE DAY. CIGS GENERALLY MVFR-VFR FOR METRO MUCH OF THE NEXT 24 HOURS...EXCEPT IN AND NEAR TSRA. KACT WILL BE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE MVFR CIGS. LIGHT FLOW WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY AROUND. WILL GO WITH A NE-SE MIX OF DIRECTION. && .DISCUSSION ISSUED AT 356 AM... AN UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN WILL REMAIN OVER NORTH TEXAS THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AS LARGE SCALE RIDGE FLATTENS AND SEVERAL WEAK SHORT WAVES ROTATE THROUGH THE BASE OF A LARGE TROUGH ACROSS THE CENTRAL U.S. UPPER FLOW WILL BECOME MORE NORTHWESTERLY LATE IN THE WEEK AS RIDGE WEAKENS AND RETROGRADE WEST AND MEAN TROUGH DEEPENS. CURRENTLY...A WEAK COLD FRONT IS DRAPED ACROSS THE RED RIVER COUNTIES AND EXTENDS WESTWARD INTO THE PANHANDLE. A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO FIRE OVER THE EASTERN PANHANDLE/LOW ROLLING PLAINS. THESE STORMS ARE BUILDING SLOWLY EAST WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS MOVE NORTH/NORTHWEST. EXPECT STORMS TO DEVELOP INTO THE NORTHWEST COUNTIES IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND MOVE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS DURING THE DAY. MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES AND CAPE WILL BECOME LESS FAVORABLE AS STORMS DEVELOP EAST...THEREFORE WE WILL KEEP THE HIGHEST POPS IN THE NORTHWEST TODAY. HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALES AND WEAK MID AND UPPER LEVEL WINDS WILL MAKE STORMS TODAY VERY EFFICIENT RAIN PRODUCERS. THE SEVERE POTENTIAL APPEARS LOW AT THIS TIME DUE TO VERY WEAK SHEAR AND MARGINAL INSTABILITY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER THROUGH THE EVENING. RAIN CHANCES WILL DECREASE ON SUNDAY AS THE SURFACE FRONT LIFTS NORTH. EXPECTED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY AS SHORT WAVE ENERGY INTERACTS WITH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. ANOTHER FRONT IS ALSO FORECAST TO CROSS THE RED RIVER THURSDAY/FRIDAY WHICH WILL INCREASE RAIN CHANCES. AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN IN THE UPPER 80S TO THE MID 90S THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AND OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL REMAIN IN THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 70S. && DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 91 71 94 75 / 50 30 10 0 WACO, TX 92 71 94 74 / 30 20 10 0 PARIS, TX 89 69 93 73 / 50 40 20 20 DENTON, TX 91 71 94 74 / 50 30 20 0 MCKINNEY, TX 90 70 94 74 / 50 30 20 10 DALLAS, TX 91 71 94 75 / 50 30 10 0 TERRELL, TX 90 70 94 75 / 50 30 20 20 CORSICANA, TX 91 71 94 74 / 50 30 20 20 TEMPLE, TX 92 71 95 73 / 30 20 10 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 4:22 AM CDT, 10 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 422 AM CDT SAT JUN 19 2004 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-192100- ANDERSON-BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DELTA- DENTON-EASTLAND-ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON- HENDERSON-HILL-HOOD-HOPKINS-HUNT-JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMAR-LAMPASAS- LEON-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILAM-MILLS-MONTAGUE-NAVARRO-PALO PINTO- PARKER-RAINS-ROBERTSON-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-VAN ZANDT- WISE-YOUNG- 422 AM CDT SAT JUN 19 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... AN UNUSUALLY ACTIVE MID JUNE WEATHER PATTERN WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOST OF NORTH TEXAS SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 7:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 11:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 54 min |
| Jun 19, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Wise | 60 min |
| Jun 19, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Denton, Tarrant | 56 min |
| Jun 19, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 56 min |
| Jun 19, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Kaufman | 51 min |
| Jun 19, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 59 min |
| Jun 19, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 44 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.